re 6855 >Dear Rakesh, > >Sorry to cause you trouble but could you give me chapter and verse on this >with respect to Grossman. > >Thanks > >Paul Bullock > Paul, This is in Grossmann's magnum opus, Part III, Section I, chapter 14 "Ein historischer Rueckblick: Das Bevoelkerungsproblem in Fruehkapitalismus. Der Charakter der fruehkapitalistischen Kolonialpolitik". Here Grossmann continues his critique against Luxemburg by arguing that from its inception colonial politics was motivated not by efforts at the realization but rather the production of surplus value. In this context Grossmann prepared the first substantial Marxist history of the modern plantation system which which through formally unfree labor relations resolved the early capitalist problem of a population shortage that in addition gave mercantalist thought its basic character. All the best, Rakesh
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